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All the ideas for 'works', 'Improvement of Understanding' and 'Preface to 'Dorian Gray''

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7 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 2. Aims of Definition

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All the intrinsic properties of a thing should be deducible from its definition [Spinoza]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

13073

To understand the properties we must know the essence, as with a circle [Spinoza]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

7276	All art is quite useless [Wilde]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

7274	Books are only well or badly written, not moral or immoral [Wilde]

7275	Having ethical sympathies is a bad mannerism of style in an artist [Wilde]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]